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Max Verstappen has said that he believes he will be a much better driver next season and admits he is still learning.
Verstappen has endured an exciting first half to his second season in Grand Prix racing, scoring four podiums, one of which includes a memorable debut win at the Spanish Grand Prix.
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"I think the most important thing is just be yourself and focus on what can be done better because in my first race I got in five times before I won my race, it’s all so new", the young Dutchman told F1i.com.
"Even the procedures were just so new to me, even doing that race I was not using the full potential of the tools I had, all those kind of things."
"So I’m still learning, I'm still improving and I don’t think it's just in terms of pace, it's everything around to get to a certain pace. It’s like getting all the little bits together to extract one more tenth or two more tenths, it's not the driving in myself because I know how to drive the car right now. From there on it’s just building experience."
"The thing is I don’t have the data from myself from last year in this team so I always have to rely on old data. With Toro Rosso when I came to the first four races I knew what I was doing, I was like ‘this I’ve experience last year’. The car is not that much different at the end of the day so you know how to work and you know which direction to go."
"Here it’s all new, they give you a direction and you have to work in that direction. When you have the experience from last year maybe you want to go in a slightly different direction, because you know how to drive the car, you know how you like the car and sometimes you have to swap a bit to another direction. But that will only get better and better."
"Next year whenever I come back, it is a new car but you have a bit more feeling to it and that will definitely help."
Verstappen has outscored his highly rated team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in the time that they have been at Red Bull together and the pair are set to go head to head again after the summer break for all boasting honors.
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